How much of my content workflow can be automated?

Hello, I am a relatively intermediate Resolve user wondering if there are more efficient ways to produce my videos.

Currently, I am making short form videos of sports gameplay, and I have the clip playing in two different aspect ratios. My current workflow is to make a duplicate copy of the clip, move, resize, and crop the duplicate into the right location on the screen.

This is not a ton of steps, but with a lot of clips it can start to get tedious. Is there some way to drag my clip into a preset timeline that will accomplish this by itself? Any suggestions are welcome as I am still quite elementary at this program. Thanks!

I have the clip playing in two different aspect ratios.

Why?

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Hello, I am a relatively intermediate Resolve user wondering if there are more efficient ways to produce my videos.

Currently, I am making short form videos of sports gameplay, and I have the clip playing in two different aspect ratios. My current workflow is to make a duplicate copy of the clip, move, resize, and crop the duplicate into the right location on the screen.

This is not a ton of steps, but with a lot of clips it can start to get tedious. Is there some way to drag my clip into a preset timeline that will accomplish this by itself? Any suggestions are welcome as I am still quite elementary at this program. Thanks!

By different "aspect ratios" I think you mean the same clip (with the same aspect ratio) framed/cropped differently on the same timeline. For example, having a portion of it appear in one place, another portion appear in another, perhaps at different points in time (i.e., each do not have be in sync), that sort of thing... sort of a stylistic action type of thing I'm imagining.

If accurate, you could use Fusion to create a node setup that will frame/crop a clip in a particular way... you can then plug in whatever clip you want and it will use that framing. Fusion is sort of built to create reusable functionality like that... if you haven't used it, they have downloadable training materials and plenty of stuff online. If you like being "artsy" with an NLE like DR, you'll likely be really happy to learn Fusion.

You could also create two timelines or compound clips each of which wraps the one source clip you wish to frame/adjust it differently. You can then take other clips and put them in copies of those and they'll take on the same attributes.

As well, you can copy/paste attributes from some original clip that has the framing you like and use paste attributes to give other clips (or nested timelines) those same attributes.

Very generally speaking, on the timeline, you basically have clip-bound attributes that affect how things look, so pasting around those attributes is one way, and hosting things inside clips/timelines (as mentioned above) is merely another way of "pasting attributes" except you are putting new clips where attributes already exist, if that makes sense... so sort of "pasting" clips where attributes already exist.

Fusion basically has nodes with attributes and you can feed those nodes whatever you wish... so if you have a clip feeding nodes that give you X, and you want some other sports clip to have X, you can replace the input with the new clip, and so on.

That's the best I can say offhand without knowing more. DR and Fusion are vast and powerful so you can certainly achieve your optimum workflow... probably a lot of ways... so you just need to try things till you find your workflow. Best of luck with it!

If you go down the Fusion inside Resolve path, you can almost automate the process. If you have two clips on your timeline..or 20...you can create a fusion comp with the first clip. In that fusion comp, do everything you need to build your look. If you need multiple video inputs, simply stack them on the timeline in Resolve...and select all the stacked clips to creat your Fusion comp.
Again, build your look. Now the beauty of this comp is that it is simply using references to media inputs from tlyou original resolve timeline. Video track 1 is media input 1. Track 2 ...media input 2 etc.

Next you select and create fusion clips from all the other stacks on your timeline. (1 fusion clip per stack)

Now put your timeline bar on the second fusion clip, assuming the first fusion clip is the one you built your look on...and click on the fusion tab. You will be presented with a base comp showing only the media in tools, and 1 media out tool, as well as a merge or two, depending on the number of layers you had. Up in the upper left part of the workspace, turn on the "clips" button . This shows you the other fusion clips on your timeline. Click on the first one, and select everything in that fusion comp, and ctrl c (copy it). Now click on the second fusion clip,....click in a nice open area of the comp and paste.

You should magically have your second set of clips in place if your first set of clips. You can delete those original "base comp" items, just leaving the copy pasted items.

Fusion is no longer referencing the media from the first fusion clip, but is now referencing the media from the second fusion clip....media 1, media 2 etc, and media out are all updated. Jump out to Resolve and you should see proper comps on both the first and second clips. Rince and repeat for all other fusion clips.

In your particular case, you would need to do a version for the different aspects...as I don't think you can setup 2 media outs in 1 comp

I do this all the time for templated comps.